| Show A GREAT EVEST IN MEXICO during the month a rell alous ceremony eer emony ban been performed in mexico maxico ico which if it bad not been for the prompt action of vie united states minister mini ater would in all probability have resulted malted in trouble and complications american missionaries are re said bald to have given expression to their opposition to the adoraL adoration IOD of the virgin a 0 guadalupe and received consequent lya a num number berof of threaten saw inn letter lottery proving that their lives were ere endangered the tragedies of culna bina might have been re enacted in the story stori of thle rite is both remarkable and ton ten years year agi ag the of mexico obtained permission from the pope to place a diadem of gold oo on the image of the bessea bie weil virgin of guadalupe with solemn rito rite and 11 1 1 and at in order that the performance should operate to the good of the faith to fol the promise was wa given that atu all apse that iu in the day of the coronation or in ID any one of the seven days immediately following hall direct boue prayers to god before before the said the virgin malty of guadalupe Guada tupe for the concord of christian princes Z ehe be extirpation of cerey the coaver ion on of onera and the exultation of the holy mother ebu plenary indulgence dul gence and the aalon lesion of all their toe which can be applied by the or suffrage to the he soule of the be faithful in christ that audited to god in n charity may have departed from 04 he world JP the date dale was wa originally set met for jeo 1 A 1889 1885 bui owing to the be feeling ol of hostility between cle cler fails and liberals toe he latter seeing in it a political 0 beme it was indefinitely put fl 9 till tili October of 1 Od tober this hekr yeartie ye arthe th P buon 0 ab aking place onta e fad ei of that pt mol thi ane crown or e i a very eottie a ai I 1 amsa aud w at ai 4 4 a d ib over the head of ahe 10 I 1 bytho att angelari a b otte i at Q atalo Mt alo ato airon 6 billib I 1 ot of new yora wis wae aman ibe filgis blab pre latee 4 present pd d he bb I 1 to bave a I 1 alva I 1 T TZ tae which 1011 th hk if homage itar 8 paid 4 14 1 we center evarl ka pe an vert juan fu tb diego 16 6 the he futory 9 coee 06 baie in the bif yer 1681 ten years beare after thoi aa was walking to 9 alie aly otte to bear shawe r at daybreak be encountered the virgin mary ry who told old win him it waa her bet aeb aft that ott 7 a should be built on nabe the aba spot k where the vision appeared and that bat lie be was wag chosen as aa a meBa mesak ener to this to the the bishop functionary however refused to oe be lieve the tb poor joor aztec and demanded kywe anae I 1 sieb aign by which his bla might bis be established the sigid wis wae floii for forg according accoti fing to the legend the virgin again app appeared earod to juan lia by a and miraculously on an toe the lap of his hie man mantle tie her bar wh image convinced by this we the bladed the paint painting lag in iii hie ble oratory and gave hanks to the be lard and his hie glorious elor loir mother IP the rumor was q spread abroad and people gathered from far and near to worship before the painting such is the tradition to a certain cartain tain degree authorized by thesolean the solemn ceremonies just performed that there at the hill of TIpe was wae an image imae enshrined soon boon after the be conquest and that the natives gathered there for religious purposes ees is a matter of historical record an earia chronicler saya pays a writer in the chicago times herald records that there were a number oi of places neair the mountains mountain where idolaters idol aters were accustom accustoms td to make very solemn sacrifices tuat brought devotees from lands 21 one ot of these was wae on the flank fl ink of P where there was an imag imura if f tel rel pu ht I 1 one of the names of the pagan 0 god o another was waa the shrine of the earth 1 situated at the foot 4 f the now called Molin che in I 1 Il aecil to which came devotees from provinces more than forty leagues distant A third was waa at the foot of the hill bill of te deyse in the valley of mexico ID aba place 91 gayb Saha sahagun Sa bagun guio they had bad a temple dedicated to the mother of the KOI whom they called juao juan do de Torque torquemada mads one of the ibe earliest missionaries in the country Is ia quoted as ae stating that the frangia calp who come before any others to prune the until ld vineyard erected a church in the place of too and io in it enshrined the glor glorious loui santa banta aoa ana grandm grandmother Abor of cur lora because li it would colo coincide oldo with the ancient festival and in the place of adjacent to mexico which Is by the the site of quadalupe guadalupe the virgin that to is our lady at aid d mother 02 according to this evidence the adoration of the virgin or guadalupe Guada iupe as still in vogue is a continuation ot of a pre christian rite of the azteca the itic burels Is a beautiful pointing painting representing oo tinga a woman clothed wito the a un having aa DC 46 WOOD u under a der her feet ana ami a craco of tars upon her bir head jt it in enclosed in a golden frame and of 16 bel belied ivd to be a copy ot or the image fortes sigried on his bla banner ln bi |
